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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

56 reviews

rivierareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Ok. Good book. But didn’t wow me the way that ACOMAF did. I loved how it started, I live for the scheming and court drama. And I think the book had great pacing and overall the plot was gripping. But… at the end it just felt a bit shallow. Nothing was really gained or lost.

Everyone lives (miraculously) except the father you don’t really care about. All of these sort of random events conspire for the good guys to come out on top.

The Tamlin subplot was logical and emotionally interesting but wasn’t really explored. My other beef with this book is that

the revelation that Mor is gay

felt forced. Can’t she just..

not love him like he loves her? Why does she have to “prefer” females?

. Don’t get me wrong I love a

gay character to add to my representation roster

but it just felt like something Sarah J Maas came up with and then forced to happen, not something natural for the plot/characters. Overall, an enjoyable book worth reading. However, book 2 felt much more natural and realistic than this one. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, War, Rape, and Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

mmgreen23's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, War, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, Infidelity, and Xenophobia

calyssat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Grief

Moderate: Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Blood, Sexism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

chaos_and_chapters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Homophobia, Torture, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Outing

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Slavery, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

kjm19's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Not as good as ACOMAF - I feel like the war at the end is a bit rushed and hurried considering how many characters were involved. If it was split into two books so that the final third could be more flushed out then it would’ve been much better. But I appreciate the continued character development, I thought that the first part in the spring court was very interesting, as well as the development of characters such as Elain, Bryaxes & the other death gods and Amren. Azriel & Mor also shone in this book. Feyre’s character continued to grow (although I think it’s weird that she didn’t fight much at all? I know she had other things to do… but all of that power. Rhys was also a continued ledge, but didn’t have as much page time as expected as the book went on. 

I would've liked to hear more about the different courts and their own magic/practices as well as about the beast forms of the High Lords. I also really liked the idea of this book being more class driven like with Feyre’s scheming at the beginning, but because the war was so huge it became impossible to make that a really integral part of the story. C’est la vie! 

The plot wraps up really nicely, so it’s a great general closure to this light escapist fantasy series. Intrigued to see where the next two books take us. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, War, Alcohol, Death, Gore, Lesbophobia, and Mental illness

caitlinspeachyreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Sexual content, Death of parent, Death, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Kidnapping, and Grief

sarah1026's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, War, and Genocide

Moderate: Vomit, Rape, Torture, Sexism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Slavery

tciriaco's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

favorite out of the series, such a beautiful book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Vomit

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

2024 reread:

Rating: 5/5 stars

This will never be my favorite of the series but it has some truly ICONIC moments and I thoroughly enjoyed the reread!

Original review (December 2022):

Rating: 5 stars

Feyre and the Night Court must create alliances and battle ancient magic to save Prythian.

As the third book in the series, there isn’t a ton I can say without a lot of recap and spoiling, so I’ll keep it short. This one was a tad long for me and didn’t have the impeccable sexual tension of ACOMAF, but it was nonetheless an absolutely phenomenal roller coaster ride the whole way.

CW: Blood/death/war/grief; kidnapping; misogyny/sexism; torture/violence; sexual assault; domestic violence/physical violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Violence, Grief, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, War, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Blood, and Torture

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Grief, Classism, Death of parent, Child abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Body horror, Slavery, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Cursing, Misogyny, Murder, and Violence